1. Start using RSS

2. Create a MAL Account

3. Respond to E-mail

I received 139 non-spam e-mails over the past year:

About half were automated messages that didn’t require a response (Notifications of comment replies, MyAnimeList, Facebook [haven’t signed on in over a year], Google repeatedly telling me I got spam-hacked [which is why this site didn’t show up on Google for about a month], etc.)

There was a fair amount of blogging collaboration e-mail. I responded as appropriate.

w00t, watching RahXephon and Eureka Seven. Even though neither particularly sounds like something you’d be all that excited about, but you do surprise me sometimes. You should watch Majin Tantei Nugami Neuro, which I just posted about. Sucks about yer eyes there, pal.

By the way couldn’t we raise your post by googling ‘naruto filler’ and then clicking on the up-arrow next to the entry? If a lot of people do this it should become considered the most important result, right?

I’ve already read the Rahxephon manga (seems completely different than the anime) and saw an episode of Eureka 7. These were both several years ago, so I don’t remember much. Regardless, I’m already a bit familiar with both series, so the order doesn’t make much of a difference to me.

I was diagnosed with blepharitis just last week. It’s something that comes and goes, and so it makes sense that one doctor might see it one week and another might not another week. My optician just advised a warm flannel (at about the temperature that would “melt chocolate”) over my closed eyes for two minutes every morning, followed by a soft massage of the eyes (again, whilst closed lol). I’ve only been doing it for three days, but I’ve already noticed a huge improvement.

I have no idea what country you’re in, I’m just a random visitor from AnimeNano, but I’m slightly amazed you’re getting an MRI for an eye complaint so soon. Seems like overkill to me, but, as I said, I’m not a doctor.

I’m not tired of self-taught drawing methods. My biggest problem is that I haven’t practiced much. My training for now will be to just draw one picture every day. If I can get into a good routine like that, real training may follow.

I hadn’t drawn since I was in… elementary school, maybe. I tried this tutorial on a whim in college and my version came out pretty damn well. I’m sure there’s better, more proper learning material out there, but this is something that felt down to earth, produced good results right out the gate, and got me going.

Props to whoever did Moe-Raptor.

As for picking up mecha anime, looking at your MAL, I would recommend Gunbuster/Diebuster or another Gundam (I say SEED).

Oh, Gunbuster. If you don’t get high on viewing cool robot designs, you will have trouble with that one.
I’d recommend it anyway for educational reasons, but given that you neither seem to like robot nor sci-fi, I don’t.

MILD SPOILERS

It contains a lot of whining and crying and apathy. Also, lots of girls doing girlish things. It’s not exactly moe, but most likely just the 80s variant of it. So expect jiggling breasts and nude breasts. It starts off as totally nonsensical events in a totally nonsensical high-school setting. Later on there will be nonsense-science and almost-nonsense-science trampling on your brain. In the end, there will be a few very one-sided battle scenes. Inbetween expect crybabies being told to believe in themselves and also some deep philosophy nonsense like “Does God exist”? and “Does humanity have the right to hurt the environment?”.

Oh, and if you should happen to watch it with speakers turned on, expect to like it regardless of everything stated above. Tanaka Kouhei and Wakamoto Norio will blow all justified criticism to smithereens.

Diebuster basically took out all the good things (like the male badass side-character), added some moemoe to the mix and either recycled or parodied the rest. Even if you liked Gunbuster, you won’t like Diebuster.

You make Gunbuster sound a lot cooler than Michael did. You also point out its flaws while assuring me I can get past them through mockery. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make a recommendation.

Will it count in your favour if I link to your Naruto filler post in one of my blog posts? I’m going to be doing a quick review of Chu-Bra! along with a thorough post-mortem of the upcoming League 2 fixture between Aldershot Town and Bradford City in the context of one of MY New Years Resolutions to do NASCAR takes only if they can referenced to Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei in some way. So will that literary stratagem support your just and noble cause?

As for your drawing and art, your stuff is just fine. Don’t mess with what works so well for you. No need to go all Julian Schnabel on us.

Heyyy, sup Baka. Meh, I’m sure you want to get the drawing better for yourself, but personally I think it works, and the whole moe raptor was pretty funny. RSS I’m definitely bad with too. There are soo many blogs I WANT to keep up with, but forget about a lot. Not because I don’t care but primarily because of time…or my parents getting pissed at me being on the computer so much. Ah, and gratz on the Naruto post! I might link a little later. Peace out.